17/12/2010

Picturehouse Entertainment, the distribution arm of City Screen, has acquired rights for Werner Herzog’s 3D documentary feature Cave of Forgotten Dreams and will release across the UK and Ireland on March 25 next year.

Herzog’s film premiered at Toronto earlier this year. It shows the results of his exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. The Chauvet Cave, which contains the earliest known cave paintings, was discovered in 1994 and is considered one of the most significant prehistoric art sites.

Picturehouse’s Director of Programming Clare Binns said, “We are very excited to be distributing this extraordinarily original film which we feel will truly resonate with cinema audiences up and down the country. At Picturehouse we take great pride in a close relationship with our members and customers, and we are now actively seeking out films which we feel can entertain and inspire them.”

Picturehouse’s last release, Jean Becker’s My Afternoons with Margueritte [+see also:
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams was directed, written and narrated by Herzog and produced by Erik Nelson and Adrienne Ciuffo by Creative Differences for History Films, in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Department of Cultural Heritage.

The film is a co-production with Arte France and More4. Co-producers are Amy Briamonte, Phil Fairclough, Judith Thurman and Nicolas Zunino while executive producers are Dave Harding, Julian P. Hobbs, David McKillop and Molly Thompson.